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The big pharma and nervous neurologists thing has become a common theme lately. Along those lines, it's been posited many times that the multiple sclerosis societies are afraid to promote this, since they are in bed with "big pharma." Does anyone have figures on how much in contributions the NMSS receives from drug companies? So far my searches haven't really turned up much.

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haven't seen any open book accounting but the canadian mss lists major donors in the annual report
http://www.mssociety.ca/en/pdf/Annual_r ... 7_2008.pdfpage 16 has them broken down but you can't see how *much* over 250,000 serono donated compared to the four estates also shown in that top category..

I guess you would have to count the advertising they pay them as well. And have they stopped the practice of wining and dining the whole medical community or just the doctors...my sister works for a doctor and they had some lovely meals out and he went on some good trips, business of course.
I guess he's not allowed to do that any more.

I mean when the groups put out their magazines, there are ads in them, and the drug companies pay for those ads. And as for the dinners and the "gifts", I think it is not allowed in the US now, but who's to say it doesn't happen.

I'll add one local thing also. Every time I get a mailer from a support group that I used to attend, the sponsor of the doctor speaking, and the dinner and the drinks are always paid for by Biogen, Serono, et al.

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